A Wild West style showdown woke housemates this morning. The living room was filled with straw bales and the Diary Room and garden decorated with cacti.

It could only mean one thing – task time.

Conor and Sara agreed the House looked amazing while Luke S, understandably cautious after yesterday’s BB stitch up, rearranged his roses. Caroline said it sounded quite fun as Adam moaned, "I hate the wild, wild west."

Big Brother requested the housemate, 'most at home where the buffalo roam', come to the Diary Room. Conor nominated himself, prompting Becky to ask, "Are there buffalos in Ireland?" No Becky, they are not indigenous to the emerald isle.

The two day Gold Rush shopping task will see housemates split into three teams with The Good, The Bad and The Really Ugly housemates going head to head in the search for gold.

Conor’s decision to go to the diary room means he will be sheriff and he picked Caroline as his deputy. This caused her to squeal, a lot and prompted Scott to call her a baby. Harsh? Maybe not.

Conor and Caroline will be calling the shots for two whole days.

The three teams are also playing for immunity from nominations and Big Brother has raised the stakes with Monday’s noms being face to face – nightmare!

Each task will begin with housemates panning for gold. The amount of gold eventually panned will decide whether or not they have passed the shopping task.

There are two parts to the task today – Raw Hide – a shoot ‘em up in the garden and The Hoedown – a country music dance off which will see housemates choreographing routines to a live ukulele band.

Will our cowboys get the blues or will they emerge with a fist full of luxury shopping budget dollars?

The Sheriff and his Deputy were charged with picking the housemate teams – The Good, The Bad and The Really Ugly – based onpersonality and giving reasons for their decisions.

Cheeky old Big Brother made them chose in the Diary room but put all activity up on the screen in the Living Room for fellow housemates to witness. Check out the breakdown:

The Good:

 Scott – He is a good Catholic boy and has a good heart.

Sara – She’s very honest and moral.

Luke S – He took the joke yesterday so well and he cleans up.

The Bad:

Adam – He’s a bad man.

Deana – It says it for itself.

Ashleigh – She’s got a bad mouth – a dirty mouth.

The Really Ugly

Lauren – She’s moany.

Luke A – He was an ugly warden. He was unjust and discriminated against us for our uninteresting conversation.

Becky – She’s superduper funny but her farts are ugly. Absolutely disgusting.

Becky took her team allocation well but later told Caroline she thinks Lauren is a 'spoon' – that is, a stirrer.

Deana sulked and Lauren, ironically confirming Caroline’s decision to put her in The Really Ugly team, moaned and asked Conor and Caroline if they thought she had an ugly personality.

Luke A was also upset, saying he was only trying to be a fair warden.

Caroline said, "Why do people take things so personally? We just made random groups."

Conor responded, "I only wanted to break up the teams. If people have a problem with it, I don’t care."

Big Brother has chained together the Bad housemates with shackles which must remain on for the entirety of the task – aside from toilet and Diary Room visits and sleep tonight.

There is tension in the teams already. Will this push the housemates to breaking point or will the threesomes form new friendship groups?

Stetsons, boots and denim shirts were among the items our Wild West housemates have donned to take on the Gold Rush task.

For once Becky was happy with her outfit, a lovely, "snug, snug", onesie and straw hat. Scott was equally ecstatic with his ‘Good’ cowboy gear saying, "I really like it. I feel like Jake Gyllenhaal. Look at Caroline, she look s like a real cowgirl."

Luke S was less than pleased about having to go through two whole days of keeping his torso under wraps. He said, "I hate this shirt. It’s massive." So big it might fall off we suspect.

Deana, who is currently sporting drawn on stubble, found the new living room furniture – straw bales – to her liking. She said, "I did a photo shoot like this once." How fabulous.

Check out our gallery to see how the housemates are shaping up in their new threads.

Big brother had a bummer of a game for our housemates during the first Gold Rush task, fittingly titled ‘Rawhide.’

Three housemates were picked by Conor and Caroline as shooters – Scott, Adam and Luke A and they in turn selected Becky, Luke S and Ashleigh as their targets.

The targets strapped on fake bums and were secured in stocks. The Good, The Bad and The Really Ugly had ten seconds to fire at them with paintball guns.

Scott showed himself to be trigger happy successfully showering Becky’s plastic butt with paint bullets.

Luke S emerged saddle sore after squealing like a baby as Adam rained shots down on him. This could well be the catalyst for pistols at dawn.

Adam’s finger slipped on the trigger releasing an unexpected shot which Luke s has not stopped complaining about, claiming he did it on purpose. In return Adam called Luke S an asshole after he purposely wiggled his bottom throughout Adam’s quick fire.

Ashleigh dropped out citing fear of paintball meaning Luke A had to chose another housemate to aim at. He picked Lauren, officially now our toughest housemate who took the onslaught without moving a muscle. She was even up for a re-shoot after Luke A claimed the trigger had stuck.

Needless to say, Luke S is suffering from a seriously bruised ego and even accused Luke A, who’s finger also slipped, of having it in for him even though that shot landed nowhere near his precious posterior.

The Sheriff and the Deputy decided Scott was the best shot meaning The Good have earned 30 seconds of gold panning time.

Conor, with a twinkle in his eye,  rubbed salt in the wounds telling Ashleigh she wasn’t a ‘team player’ and Luke S ‘he would not have made a good Deputy’.

With Luke S sulking, Adam feeling cheated out of a top performance and Lauren showing up the Stoke softie, we are sitting back and waiting for the garden to turn into the OK Corral.